· Named one of the Best Crime Books of the Year by the Guardian, Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she may . · Weirdo. Written by Cathi Unsworth — Anyone who has ever lived in one of the UK’s myriad small seaside towns will be familiar with the cloying claustrophobia that comes with the territory. Cathi Unsworth Portrait and Bad Penny Blues jacket design by Etienne Gilfillan Listen to Bad Penny Blues – The Transmissions To get yourself in the mood for Bad Penny Blues, lend an ear to The Transmissions, a sonic meeting between Cathi and electronic composer Pete Woodhead recreating the spookiest sections of the book – the last nights of.
Read "Weirdo" by Cathi Unsworth available from Rakuten Kobo. Named one of the Best Crime Books of the Year by the Guardian, Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl co. WEIRDO By: Cathi Unsworth. Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer's evening in , a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents. WEIRDO by Cathi Unsworth CBTB Rating: /5 THE VERDICT: skip this one. WEIRDO was my first book by Cathi Unsworth, and I'm not completely sure that I'll read another by her. This book wasn't terrible by any means, but it lacked the drive that I look for in a crime read. Even slow-paced crime novels need something compelling the reader forward.
Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she may not have acted alone Corinne Woodrow was 15 when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer’s evening in , a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents. WEIRDO has a plot worthy of an awesome horror story, and I had high hopes for how Unsworth would develop it. This story centers around a crime committed decades ago: a schoolgirl accused of viciously murdering one of her peers in a ritualistic, almost Satanic ceremony. Now, 20 years later, a private investigator is hired to look into the case. Her first novel, The Not Knowing, was published by Serpent's Tail in August Cathi Unsworth moved to Ladbroke Grove in and has stayed there ever since. She began a career in rock writing with Sounds and Melody Maker, before co-editing the arts journal Purr and then Bizarre magazine.
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